Free London 2012 Olympic events guide
Download our events guide, filled with BRITAIN magazine's favourite free events to help you celebrate London 2012
This summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in London is a unique, once-in-a-lifetime event for everybody living in and...
10 fascinating facts about the Olympics
From a queen’s demand that forever changed the marathon, to the relocation of 2,000 east London newts, BRITAIN brings you some intriguing facts about London’s past and present Olympic Games
WORDS Julia McDonald
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Olympic opening ceremony to have countryside theme
London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony is set to excite with a countryside theme including pretty picnics, rippling rivers, mesmerising meadows and real animals…
The Olympic stadium will be transformed into a rural wonder on 27...
Olympic Torch relay: best moments so far
It is nearly two weeks since the Olympic Torch left Land's End and it has already travelled in the hands of hundreds of truly inspirational people through some of Britain's most beautiful scenery.
These are...
Flying the flame
Organisers of the London Olympic Games will receive the Olympic flame today at a ceremony in Athens, before bringing it home to Britain
A British delegation including London 2012 chief Lord Coe, British Olympic Association...
Second chance to buy Olympic Games tickets
Applicants who were pipped to the post for Olympic tickets in the first ballot are being given a second chance to apply for tickets until 11pm on 17 May
A staggering 70,000 tickets are on offer,...
Olympic cities at Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge is celebrating the London Olympics in style this summer with a round-the-world tour of the ‘Cities of the Modern Games’, a new exhibition of beautiful photographs of host cities
As the excitement for...
London 2012 Olympic Torch Route
The street-by-street route of the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay has been revealed, with a total of 8,000 torchbearers guiding the flame through its 70-day tour of the country
The origins of the iconic Olympic...
London 2012 Olympics: Picture Gallery
The best athletes in the world are set to descend on London from 27th July 2012 for this summer's Olympic Games, with 205 countries expected to take part in 26 Olympic and 20 Paralympic...
The history of London’s Olympics
From unlikely origins in sleepy Shropshire, the history of the Olympic Games has been characterised by stories of triumph over adversity and a very British sense of fair play
London will make history when it...
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